Palindromic Poetic Adventures: SPELLING with Palinkus

Editors' Note: Readers can find dozens of these word formulations, or 'poems', elsewhere on this blog and on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense".

 

Each line in the slide immediately above shows a relevant "magical palindrome". You can learn more about this unique lexical phenomenon (even to its creators it's rather puzzling) by clicking HERE.

Our entire display on this blogpost leads us to the following conclusions about using palindromes for spelling:

1. The "palinku", a form of highly constrained but non-rhyming verse, is a great way to convey ideas. You can find lots more examples of palinku verses on our blog-posts, starting HERE; (they are displayed on the 17th of every month on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" from 2020 through 2024.)  

2. The information about spelling given by palindromes is more misleading than it is helpful.

3. The repetition of the letters in the left and right parts of the phrase or sentence make differentiating between correct and possibly incorrect spellings difficult. 

4. "Magical palindromes" can overcome a portion of the problem. 

5. Enjoy the rest of your day!

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To resume your review of the sequence of daily titillations on our related blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", click HERE. Once you arrive, you can select your time frame of interest from the calendar-based listings at the bottom of the page, and check the daily offerings for any month from the start of 2020 until July 2025. 

As of July 20, 2025, there are 2,000 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. 

Most of the key elements, such as this one, are also assembled here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections.

The "Daily" format, a formidable mix of genres, also has the advantage of including song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.